Bourton-on-the-Water Primary Academy has made the most of county council funding for much-needed expansion work at the school in the Cotswolds.

The new school facilities mean more space for learning and modern cooking, serving and dining areas for children. The school can return one of the rooms being used as a dining area back into a classroom thanks to a hall extension with a new kitchen and servery.

To mark International Women’s Day today (Wednesday), Westonbirt School's headmistress Natasha Dangerfield reflects on the two days she recently spent teaching at the Kate McGrath Secondary School for Girls in the beautiful but challenged Sierra Leone.

Tourism officers from Cotswold District Council joined forces with the Cirencester Visitor Information Centre during English Tourism Week to brief students from Westonbirt School on the importance of tourism to the local economy and how marketing and promotion has evolved over the years.

Work has recently started on a £900,000 new science building at Chipping Campden School.

A two-storey extension will provide two high quality laboratory spaces and a teaching training room to complement that of the existing science department. In addition, refurbishment of existing internal space will provide an additional demonstration laboratory.

Over 80 Year 8 students at Chipping Campden School enjoyed the novel experience of participating in a ‘slam’ poetry day as part of its enrichment programme for the academic year.

The event was hosted and led by professional poet and writer Giovanni Esposito, otherwise known as ‘Spoz’, a former Birmingham Poet Laureate who runs an interactive programme of poetry workshops throughout schools in the region.

Hatherop Castle School's team of Lego robot programmers won the regional heat of the Lego League's 'Trash Trek Challenge' at the weekend, competing at the National Instruments offices in Newbury, Berkshire.

An entrepreneurial duo from Cirencester Sixth Form College has been awarded the £4,000 first prize in the Edge Challenge – a national enterprise competition run by independent education charity the Edge Foundation.

Callum Coles and Samuel Roberts from Cirencester developed Sober Drive – a breathalyser device fitted into vehicles to prevent the would-be-drunk-driver from starting the car, thereby reducing the number of drink-driving incidents.

Five sixth form science students from Chipping Campden School are celebrating being the first in the country to be awarded a prestigious British Science Association (BSA) award for their science clubs.

Make Music Gloucestershire and CHANT Productions have worked together so students from three county schools could take part in a rousing vocal start to the England/New Zealand rugby league international at Olympic Stadium on Saturday, which was televised live on BBC One.

6,000 pupils in Gloucestershire have started to benefit from a new teacher forum set up by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) which met last week and helps teachers to take learning outdoors.

WWT’s Slimbridge HQ has been a popular destination for school visits for almost 70 years. But a WWT survey of Gloucestershire teachers found huge differences in how often they took their pupils outdoors to learn during regular school lessons, despite all recognising the benefits for their students.

A teacher from Chipping Campden School has won £12,450 for her brilliant idea to help ignite students’ passion for science as part of the Let Teachers SHINE competition.

The competition is run by the education charity SHINE (Support and Help in Education) and aims to discover innovative ideas that can transform learning. It is also supported by Capita SIMS, Bloomberg and Teachers Assurance.